The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-04-01
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News

Summary Of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.
The Civil Service Commissioners at
Washington q day or two ago received 9
letter from public school teacher in Mich
igan, wanting to know il the commissioners
would not bring her blank application the
next time they happened to be in her neigh.
borhood. A blank form was sent to her
and was shortly after returned filled up
Her age was stated as forty-nine, but the
physician who certified to her good health
said that though she was forty-nine, he
would assure the commissioners that she
did not look day over thirty-fiv and was
as spry as woman Of thirty.
DIR. RILEY, the Government Entomolo-
gist, has gone to California to investigate
the Coltony cushion scale, an Australian in
sect, said to be spreading ominously over
the Pacific Coast.
THE President has appointed the follow
ing Interstate Commerce Commissioners /:
Thomas NJ Cooley. of Michigan, for the
term of six years; William X. Morrison. of
Illinois, for the term of five years; Angus
tbs Schoonmaker, of New York, for the
term Of four years; Aldace F. Walker of
Vermont, for the term Of three years; Wal
ter L. Bragg, of Alabama, for the term Of
two years.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has made liberal
contribution to the fund for q hospital 1t
Monrovia, Liberia.
THs internal revenue collections Of the
pas. eight months were &N,24S. S6S.
s9ls. 70: less than during the corresponding
period of the last fiscal year.
THE acting Secretary of the Treasury has
issued the 14Sth call for the redemption of
bonds. The call is for el0,OOO,OOO of the
three per cent. loan of 1882.
MRS CLEVELAND unveiled Q portrait of
Mrs. Dolly" Madison, at Washington re-
Gently. The occasion was = charitable en-
fertainment in aid Of the Washington City
Orphan Asylum. Mrs. Manson was one of
the six founders Of the institution.
THE Acting Secretary of the Treasury has
received letter from Deputy Collector
Spencer, of Tampa, Fla, giving the details
OF the recent action of the citizens in driv-
ing away the troublesome Cuban filibuster.
ers, and says the attempt to get up an ex-
petition has evidently been abandoned. and
that it is not likely that any more efforts
Will be made to start similar expeditions
from that neighborhood for some time to
come.
OSCAR s. STRAUSS, the newly appointed
Minister to Turkey, is q prominent New
York importer and was president of the
Cleveland and Hendricks Business Mems
Club in 1884,
THERE are now 2T.1 applications for
pensions before the Pension Bureau They
are pouring in at the rate of COCO per week.
COMMISSIONER SPARKS has declined to is
sue patents to the Southern Pacific railway
TOR lands on list No. on the ground that by
80 doing he would defeat the exercise of it's
will Of the coming Congress.
THE EAST.
JOSEPH MOoRs. Andrew Carr and Patrick
Kelly, the striking firemen on the steam
ship Saratoga, pleaded guilty IN the United
States Court at New York. Judge Brown
sentenced them to one months imprison-
ment each. The trouble Occurred in the re-
cent strike.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made for the
sale of Beechers books engraylngs. etch-
ings, paintings. rugs and bric-a brac at the
rooms Of the American Art Association at
New York next fall.
The New Jersey Court Of Pardons has
coramuted the sentence of Janitor Titus for
the murder of Tillie Smith to imprison-
ment for life.
CHILD was born recently at Bridge
port. Conn.,, with well DEVELOPED eie-
plants head. The mother had been ter
ribly frightened at circus.
CHARLES NJ. RoTnsCHrLD. wholesale no
tions, failed recently at New Y ork for SlOJ,-
co.
A NUMBER of the discharged New York
Pennsylvania & Ohio strikers applied to
other roads for positions, but were told that
they could not be employed as they were
Ol2ckllSted. The men intend bringing suits
for damages against the New York, Penn
sylvania q Ohio.
THE sale of the Stewart art gallery took
place at New York on the sd.
The Cleary (boodle) jury at New York
has been discharged, having failed to agree
They stood six to six.
THE Crosby High License bill has been
passed by the New York Assembly.
THE schooner George s. Richardson was
capsized in gale recently OF the mouth Of
Pungoteague creek Chesapeake Bay No
trace of her crew could be found, and it was
supposed all on board were lost.
The open hearth men employed at the
Linden steel works, Pittsburgh, Pa, struck |
recently for an advance in wages. This |
forced the skilled work to close also and !
the entire mill was shut down.
The Pennsylvania Board Of Pardons has
refused rehearing in the case Of Milton
Weston, the Chicago capitalist, now under |
going Imprisonment in the Riverside peni- |
Tertiary for completely in the MurraysvilIe |
gas well riots.
Thl New York Court Of Appeals has !
unanimously affirmed the constitutiorality 1
Of the State Oleomargarine act on decision |
0Mrmlng the sentence of a BROOKLYN gro
Ger convicted under the act
THREE men, evidently laborers, were |
struck by Baltimore & Ohio express |
train recently near Leighton Station, Pa |
Two of them were killed outright, the third |
fatally injured
The liabilities of the suspended firm of |
James and John Hunter. of Philadelphia,
are reported to amount to S5OO.GO0
THE grand jury at Greenfield, Mass, has
indicted Frank w. Foster, ex-town treas
urer, for embezzlement from the town
treasury, the amount taken aggrcgating
$500
AT Methodist Episcopal donation party,
held in school house. at Stittville, n. Y,
recently the floor gave way, and ten or
twelve persons were severely injured, be-
ing bruised, burned and scalded and sus-
tanning fractures of the lImbs
n. BRoMwELL & SoNS, hop dealers. of
Hubbardsville, n. Y, have filed articles of
assignment Liabilities, s55OOO; assets, un
known.
PAT GUNNAN and Mat Turney, boys and
stOwaways, were found the other day in
the hold Of the steamer Kansas at Boston,
fourteen days from Liverpool The matches
were fastened down and covered with
freight. They were without food and drink
and were in q critical condition when res
cued.
Mrs. ANN WRIGHT, mother of George
and Harry Wright, the noted base ball